Grow plantains & support human rights in Cameroon!

Summary

This project provides a 4x4 plus trailer for a women and children’s rights organisation in Limbe, Cameroon, which plans to self sustain by farming a plantain plantation & requires transportation. progress report read updates from the field

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	£10 - pays for 10km per year for a vehicle to track child trafficking
	£20 - pays for the plantation’s land rent for 1 month
	£34 - pays to run the plantation for half a day, including salaries, transportation, raw materials, vehicle
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Project Needs and Beneficiaries

The Association for Protection of Women and Children’s Rights (APWCR) is based in Limbe, Cameroon. It tackles human rights abuses of women and children, including child trafficking, child labour, forced marriage, female circumcision and torture. It needs permanent staff and to raise funds, it has rented a plantain farm, which is currently worked by volunteers. The farm is 7km away, along dirt roads. Crops must be taken to market on foot, which is arduous and inefficient.

Activities

A vehicle and trailer will allow transportation of workers, equipment and equipment to the plantation and of the crops to market. It will increase crop yield and generate income for APWCR.

Funding Information

Total Funding Received to Date: £2,279
Remaining Goal to be Funded: £24,352
Total Funding Goal: £26,631

Additional Documentation

This project has provided additional documentation in a Microsoft Word file (projdoc.doc).

Resources

Project's External Homepage (http://www.apwcri.org)

Why this Project is Important

Potential Long Term Impact

The project will help more women from the Western Region of Cameroon avoid abuse. More instances of child trafficking will be investigated and better working conditions will be negotiated for child workers. Up to 10 local jobs will be created.

Project Message

I want to see our volunteers able to deploy all the energy they put into transporting crops on foot into an effort that will really start to help Cameroonian society.
- George Abang Tawoh, CEO

Who is Running This Project

Contact

George Abang Tawoh,

Opposite Catholic Church
New Town
Limbe, South West Province P.O. Box 576
Cameroon
237 77 98 57 59
Email:

Organisation

Association for the Protection of Women and Children's Rights (APWCR)
P.O.BOX 576
Limbe, South West Region 00237
Cameroon
+237 7798 5759
http://www.apwcri.org

Learn more about Association for the Protection of Women and Children's Rights (APWCR) and the project team.

Where this Project is Located

Country

This project is located in Cameroon and can also be found under Human Rights.

For more information about Cameroon, read the Human Development Report on Cameroon or the Wikipedia entry for Cameroon.

When this Project was Updated

Last Updated

This project was last updated on October 07, 2011.

Date Added to GlobalGiving

This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on March 24, 2010.

Latest Update from the Field

APWCR Observers for Presidentials polls - Cameroon

By George Abang Tawoh - General Commissioner/ CEO APWCR, October 07, 2011 03:14 AM

Distinguish Donors,

After receiving the powerful delegation from GlobalGiving USA in the person of Meg Dallet and Lurel Chor in APWCR office and in her project site titled "APWCR GLOBAL GIVING PLANTAINS FARM" in the outskirts of Bimbia in the month of June 2011, there has been some drastic changes in the area of pursuing some of the objectives of APWCR.

Immediately after their departure to other partners organizations in Cameroon via USA, APWCR volunteers continued the clearing of the plantain farm through the period of July and August. The first two weeks of September were used to start the hanging of robes on the upper parts of the plantains with newly bunches to avoid them to fall. Currently about 15 plantains have giving new bunches thanks for your sacrificial continuous support to our project.

Another fear we are having now is on how soon, our volunteers will continue transporting the plantains crop to the market on their heads and backs, we desperately need a 4x4 vehicle to enable us overcome this and increase productivity. We are also appealing to any of our donor who may be having a used 4x4 vehicle in any part of the world and desire to donate it to the services of APWCR, should without any hesitation endeavor to contact us, it may be for necessary arrangements for shipment to Douala - Cameroon the nearest port to Limbe APWCR project site.

With other assistant from devoted members, APWCR website www.apwcri.org which has been down now for some months because of financial difficulties is under serious construction and within two weeks time it will be online, thanks to these generous contribution.

18 selected observers of APWCR will join other 209 observers in different human rights organization making a total of 227 observers in the umbrella of the Cameroon Network of Human Rights Organizations (CNHRO) based in Yaounde that has been accredidated by the Ministry of Territoral and Decentralization MINTD to observe the October 9th Presidential Elections in Cameroon. Our observation will be published latter.

Once more thanks very much for recommending our project to your family members, friends and associates members and other organisations.

Sincerly,

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